Synonyms of punctured

punctured

verb

past tense of puncture

1

as in pierced

to make a hole or series of holes in

a nail punctured the tire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pierced
• drilled
• punched
• poked
• holed
• perforated
• riddled
• bored
• tapped
• penetrated
• pricked
• cut
• broke
• slashed
• excavated
• ruptured
• broached
• hollowed
• split
• grooved
• slit
• gouged
• prickled
• notched
• gashed
• rent
• burrowed (into)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• filled
• sealed
• patched
• plugged

2

as in stabbed

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object

I could never puncture my own skin with a hypodermic needle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stabbed
• pierced
• jabbed
• picked
• stuck
• pecked
• impaled
• speared
• poked
• skewered
• lanced
• harpooned
• spitted
• gored
• punched
• sliced
• transfixed
• spiked
• pinked
• ran through
• perforated
• transpierced
• riddled
• pricked
• spindled
• cut
• bayoneted
• knifed
• thrust
• pronged
• gimleted
• pinpricked
• piked
• quilled
• dirked
• poniarded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of punctured

Comedy capers like this usually deflate in the third act when their pleasures get punctured by unfunny gunfire. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026

While driving around the town of Tremont in a sleek red Model S, an unnamed driver hit an object on the road which punctured the vehicle’s lithium-ion battery, local station WABI5 reported. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 12 Aug. 2026

But her neo-yuppie fantasy is punctured when she’s rejected from a business-school summer program. — Judy Berman, Time, 4 Aug. 2026

People didn’t buy the Old Hollywood Grande of the early 2020s; her headlines punctured the wholesome façade. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026

Images of Russian delivery warehouses and refineries ablaze have punctured the veneer of safety Moscow has tried to maintain four years into the war. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 31 July 2026

Then Uber came along and punctured the entire system within a few years. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 July 2026

The heckle briefly punctured the idyll at CicLAvia, the long-running open-streets bike that brings thousands of cyclists to different LA neighborhoods multiple times each year. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026

Three people were arrested Saturday after Antioch police officers found them with guns and nearly two dozen ounces of marijuana outside a car punctured with bullet holes, police said. — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 20 July 2026